Art: Bargain Back

Proudly last week Samuel Henry Kress
watched his name in mighty granite letters emerging on the Fifth Avenue
facade of his newest 5-10-25¢ store, which is rapidly nearing
completion on the Manhattan site of the famed old Wendel house.

Even prouder was Merchant Kress last week to know that his name was on
the tongue of the entire art world. One purchase of $250,000 had
lifted his little known collection of Italian paintings to front-rank
eminence. For that sum Mr. Kress had just bought from Clarence
Hungerford Mackay one of the four paintings...